Gengasaurus
Name:
Gengasaurus
(Genga lizard).
Phonetic: Gen-gah-sore-us.
Named By: I. Paparella, E. E. Maxwell, A.
Cipriani, S. Roncace & M. W. Caldwell - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Ichthyosauria, Ophthalmosauridae, Ophthalmosaurinae.
Species: G. nicosiai (type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Italy.
Time period: Late Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Gengasaurus
is a genus of ichthyosaur
that lived in European waters during the late
Jurassic.
Further reading
- The first ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of
the Umbrian-Marchean Apennines (Marche, Central Italy). -
Geological Magazine 154(4):837-858. - I. Paparella, E.
E. Maxwell, A. Cipriani, S. Roncace & M. W.
Caldwell - 2017.
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